How come I can install DragonFly on the empty third partition?
You’ll need to create a primary partition from the unallocated space on the rest of your drive. The installer doesn’t yet have the ability to create new primary partitions, so you’ll have to use your favourite partition editor before using the installer. You can log in as root and use fdisk from the DragonFly live CD. Create the primary partition with a type of 165 (hexadecimal 0xa5), which is the same type used for FreeBSD and NetBSD. Also it’s best to make this partition several gigabytes in size. • My system is now installed. How can I run the installer from the installed system, so I can configure it? The installer doesn’t yet support running from the installed system, so you’ll have to boot from the CD and select “Configure an Installed System” from there. The configuration support in the installer is currently pretty scant at any rate, so for any serious configuration, it’s much wiser to learn how to do it manually. Most of these tasks can be accomplished by editing the files in
